There's a margin of error in decision making. By no means do they always get it right. Remember, much of the fourth estate innately will be crassly negative,

There's a margin of error in decision making. By no means do they always get it right. Remember, much of the fourth estate innately will be crassly negative, for commercial reasons. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamphlet_wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamphlet_wars. New Zealand for example has some remarkably shrill national news stories about remarkably petty crime. > There's a big difference between being an expert & representing the will of the people (aka policy). Yes, and the technocrats don't always get it right, at all. Democracy works because nobody actually trusts the technocrats. Just like nobody trusts the investment bankers, politicians, real estate developers, police, lawyers. However, Australasia has had a remarkable run of success via eventually doing what the technocrats tell them to do. The will of the people supports the technocrats.